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- A man who owns a diamond importing business goes out for a night on the town with his girlfriend, her brother and her brother's fiancé. The group stops by a circus to see the act of a trapeze artist who's a friend of the man's girlfriend. The performer suggests that all the men go out for a few drinks, and the next thing the businessman knows, he's waking up in his apartment with a terrible hangover and a dead body in his room. His "friends" testify against him in his murder trial and he's sent to prison. Eventually he is released and sets out to track down those who were responsible for framing him.
- Paracelsus is the story of the Renaissance era Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim.
- In East Germany, a double agent falls for a beautiful young escapee from Hungary.
- A crime comedy around a murder on the Orient-Express with lots of twists around the investigation and love affairs. One of the last entertainment comedies of the declining Nazi-regime.
- For his first return film in now National Socialist Germany, Pabst presented a historical tribute to the very first national theater troupe there,founded by a group of actors in the town of Weimar in the 18th century.
- Eight blind people witness a scientist's murder
- Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team.
- In 1865, Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as a mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group is attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and should flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
- At the end of the nineteenth century, Russia, Prince Nekhlyudov, on the verge of contracting a marriage of convenience, leads a superficial and mundane life. He is appointed juror in the trial of a woman in whom he recognizes Katyusha, a woman he once seduced and abandoned pregnant.
- Father Brown tries to solve some murders.
- An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction.
- Brandner Kaspar does not want to die, there is still so much to do and experience on earth. When death appears and wants to get him, Kaspar plays with him for his life - and wins.
- Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
- The superstitious writer Heinz Kersten sends his servant Paul to the house of the veterinarian Teisinger, whose daughter he falls in love with.
- Love story between a fisherman of the Adriatic coast and a young girl of the village.
- An engineer is hired to plan the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction.
- When her pianist daughter Anita confesses she is in love Marianne recalls the loves of her own youth, decides to go an a trip and see what has become of her former lovers and rekindles her relationship with a now famous musical director.
- Vehicle for the popular Hans Albers, as a confident, cynical engineer in 1905 Canada suspected of trying to sabotage construction of a water project.
- Catherine Miller, a star of the Casino de Paris, is noticed by the author Alexandre Gordy.
- Father Brown brings back a stolen painting. Later he examines the mysterious death of a castle owner.
- A German woman doctor in a Siberia prison camp during WWII inspires her fellow detainees with her compassion and strength.
- Rose Bernd, a pretty farm girl, attracts the men around her against her will. Not only her boss, Christoph Flamm, a rich landowner married to an invalid woman but also Arthur Streckmann, a virile excavator driver. Both manage to make love with her, which results in her falling pregnant. Rose's father decides to lodge a complaint but while in the street on her way to the law court Rose gives birth to her baby.
- Vienna during the fin de siecle. Farmer's daughter Anuschka has to sell the farm after her father's death to the rich but mean farmer's wife Nowarek and her friendly son Jaro. Anuschka goes to Vienna and starts to work as a housemaid until she is wrongly accused of theft. In order to restore her dignity she seeks for help plus suddenly Jaro appears to help her and so on and so forth..
- Oskar Schnabel is a wholesaler of fruits from the Arabian region. One day his oriental trading partner passes on a twelve-piece of harem ladies to him.
- It's all about the value of a beautiful thoroughbred hunting dog and his loyalty. The animal has to choose between love and duty. Love, as always, pervails.
- A sculptor, an enemy of modern art, sets an example. He sculpts a statue of Venus in the style of the Greek antiquity and buries it in a forest. When it's dug up in 1930, it's considered to be a 2 000 year old, antique statue.
- Painter rookie Pamela plans to work in advertising but established artist Alwin falls for her and urges her to hone her craft. He guides her to fragile success, she detests being dependent on him and tries to succeed on her own.
- Blohm, workaholic boss of a big company, marries his secretary Karin who is promptly confined to their home and neglected by her husband. Isolated and unhappy, she decides to divorce him, forcing Blohm to reconsider his way of life.
- The German physician Dr. Struensee, brilliant doctor and favorite of women, is summoned to the royal court in Copenhagen.
- Berlin 1920: Die seit sieben Jahren verheiratete Anwaltsgattin Evelyne Droste (Claude Jade) verliebt sich in den Amerikaner Frank Davis (Barry Stokes) und folgt ihm heimlich für ein Wochenende nach Paris. Damit setzt Evelyne ihre bürgerliche Existenz aufs Spiel. Nach dem Roman von Vicki Baum.
- For 25 years Maximilian and Fränze have had an ideal marriage, but when lawyer Thomas marries their daughter Monika, one of his clients, singer Alexandra, reveals that she is actually also Maximilian's daughter from an illicit affair.
- Elsie loves aspiring singer Toni who with his songwriter friend Edi is struggling to succeed in the tough music industry. As no breakthrough is in sight Elsie has to choose between poor Toni and rich heir Stefan, her childhood companion.
- Nazi propaganda film about a German laborer named Keith who works in a sawmill in Poland near the German border in 1939. When local anti-German sentiment leads to lynchings, lovely Anna hides Keith in her tavern.
- Peter asks Baron Vermehren, a renowned astrologer, for the hand of his daughter Julia. The baron claims that the stars allow the match only after Peter steals a large sum of money. Honest Peter desperately sets out to commit the crime.
- Thomas tries to prevent the wedding of his son Toni and Vevi, his secret daughter from a one-night stand. When he finds another bride, Afra, for Toni suddenly Thomas' wife strictly forbids the match because Afra is her illicit daughter.
- Film about the exploits of famed German explorer Dr. Carl Peters.